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STORY: SIERRA LEONE / HOSPITAL EBOLA OUTBREAK
TRT: 1.12
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 19 JULY 2014, KENEMA, SIERRA LEONE
1. Pan right, hospital sign to gate
2. Wide shot, ambulance outside hospital
3. Med shot, health worker walking away and pan to the floor with 2 bodies lying there
4. Tracking shot, WHO staff walking in hospital
5. Med shot, doctor examining a boy
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Lane, epidemiologist WHO / GOARN:
“So this is an emergency, we are already in trouble we are already fighting something that is very, very large, it is gone get a lot larger if we do not get a lot more resources.”
7. Wide shot, Lane outside the hospital
8. Close up, boy playing with plastic bottles
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Lane, epidemiologist WHO / GOARN:
“The resources we desperately are personnel, logistics in terms of the standards, PPE, medication, general hospital equipment.”
10. Close up, old women waiting
World Health Organization (WHO) workers helping authorities fight Ebola in the Sierra Leone city of Kenema warned that the virus could spread further unless more resources are allocated to fight the deadly virus.
In Sierra Leone, the latest cases were reported in the large southern city of Kenema. The district hospital had since turned two of its wards into an Ebola treatment center.
The hospital has limited capacity and their health workers are not well prepared to treat patients infected by Ebola. Eight of its nurses working in the “Ebola ward” were infected.
WHO workers supporting the hospital said they need more resources.
Chris Lane, epidemiologist working for WHO said “we are already in trouble” and they are fighting something which is already large and could get “a lot larger” unless more resources are brought forward.
In order to combat this disease, doctors need more trained personnel, medication, and general hospital equipment.
As of 17 July, more than 1000 cases of Ebola have been reported in three countries of West Africa – Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea and 648 people have died from it.
